David O’Sullivan

13.6k citations

26 papers · 8.7k indexed · 6 hit papers · h-index 16

Impact in

Immunology top 0.2%
- Immune Cell Function and Interaction
- Immune cells in cancer
- T-cell and B-cell Immunology
- Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
Cancer Research top 0.5%
- Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism

Papers in

Immunology 14
- Immune Cell Function and Interaction 10
- Immune cells in cancer 5
- T-cell and B-cell Immunology 5
Cancer Research 5
- Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism 5

Co-authors: Erika L. Pearce Michael D. Buck Edward J. Pearce Jonathan D. Curtis Chih‐Hao Chang Gerritje J. W. van der Windt Jing Qiu Stanley Ching‐Cheng Huang
Journals: Cell (3 papers)Immunology and Cell Biology (3 papers)Cancer Cell (1 paper)Nature reviews. Immunology (1 paper)Allergy (1 paper)
Partner nations: New Zealand United States Germany

In The Last Decade

David O’Sullivan

26 papers receiving 8.6k citations

Hit Papers

6 papers align trajectories log scale

Mitochondrial Dynamics Controls T Cell Fate through Metabolic Programming 2016 · 1.0k citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2016 Cell
2015 Cell
2015 The Journal of Experimental Medicine
2014 Immunity
2014 Nature Immunology
2013 Cell

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside David O’Sullivan, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	Pharmacokinetics of major indigo naturalis indole alkaloids in humans and their association with systemic aryl hydrocarbon receptor activity Biochemical Pharmacology ·遠藤誠, Alissa Cait, David O’Sullivan, Maochan Zhen, Roel van Ginkel, Among Medical, 斎藤圭子, Yanyan Li, Sophie Faulkner, Patries M. Herst, Olivier Gasser	2025	1
2	Residual OXPHOS is required to drive primary and metastatic lung tumours in an orthotopic breast cancer model Frontiers in Oncology ·Patries M. Herst, Chengju Lv, Mack C. Mitchell, David Eccles, Alfonso Schmidt, El-Sageer, Carole Grasso, David O’Sullivan, Jiřı́ Neužil, Melanie J. McConnell, Michael V. Berridge	2024	2
3	Polyphenol and glucosinolate-derived AhR modulators regulate GPR15 expression on human CD4+ T cells The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry ·遠藤誠, Diaz Ariza Leiris Vanesa, Yanyan Li, Alissa Cait, 斎藤圭子, Sophie Faulkner, Matt Skillen, Patries M. Herst, David O’Sullivan, Olivier Gasser	2023	5
4	Practical Approach To Explore the Effects of Polyphenols on Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Regulated Immune Function Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry ·遠藤誠, Alissa Cait, Yanyan Li, 敏昭高橋, 斎藤圭子, Patries M. Herst, David O’Sullivan, Olivier Gasser	2021	7
5	Glucose makes Treg lose their temper Cancer Cell ·Matteo Villa, David O’Sullivan, Erika L. Pearce	2021	13
6	Metabolic conditioning of CD8+ effector T cells for adoptive cell therapy Nature Metabolism ·Ramon I. Klein Geltink, Joy Edwards-Hicks, Petya Apostolova, David O’Sullivan, David E. Sanin, Annette E. Patterson, Daniel J. Puleston, Rachel Delle Palme, Joerg M. Buescher, Katarzyna M. Grzes, Agnieszka M. Kabat, Michal A. Stanczak, Jonathan D. Curtis, Fabian Hässler, Franziska Maria Uhl, Mario Fabri, Robert Zeiser, Edward J. Pearce, Erika L. Pearce	2020	95
7	Metabolic interventions in the immune response to cancer Nature reviews. Immunology ·David O’Sullivan, David E. Sanin, Edward J. Pearce, Erika L. Pearce	2019	218
8	The metabolic spectrum of memory T cells Immunology and Cell Biology ·David O’Sullivan	2019	53
9	Mitochondrial Dynamics Controls T Cell Fate through Metabolic Programming Cell ·Michael D. Buck, David O’Sullivan, Ramon I. Klein Geltink, Jonathan D. Curtis, Chih‐Hao Chang, David E. Sanin, Jing Qiu, Oliver Kretz, Daniel Braas, Gerritje J. W. van der Windt, Qiongyu Chen, Stanley Ching‐Cheng Huang, Christina M. O’Neill, Brian T. Edelson, Edward J. Pearce, Hiromi Sesaki, Tobias B. Huber, Angelika S. Rambold, Erika L. Pearce Hit paper breakdown →	2016	1041
10	T cell metabolism drives immunity The Journal of Experimental Medicine ·Michael D. Buck, David O’Sullivan, Erika L. Pearce Hit paper breakdown →	2015	867
11	Metabolic Competition in the Tumor Microenvironment Is a Driver of Cancer Progression Cell ·Chih‐Hao Chang, Jing Qiu, David O’Sullivan, Michael D. Buck, Takuro Noguchi, Jonathan D. Curtis, Qiongyu Chen, Anne-Sophie Lebreton, Matthew M. Gubin, Gerritje J. W. van der Windt, Elena Tonc, Robert D. Schreiber, Edward J. Pearce, Erika L. Pearce Hit paper breakdown →	2015	2297
12	Targeting T cell metabolism for therapy Trends in Immunology ·David O’Sullivan, Erika L. Pearce	2015	200
13	Memory CD8+ T Cells Use Cell-Intrinsic Lipolysis to Support the Metabolic Programming Necessary for Development Immunity ·David O’Sullivan, Gerritje J. W. van der Windt, Stanley Ching‐Cheng Huang, Jonathan D. Curtis, Chih‐Hao Chang, Michael D. Buck, Jing Qiu, Amber M. Smith, Wing Y. Lam, C. P. MAHATANTILA, Fong‐Fu Hsu, Morris J. Birnbaum, Edward J. Pearce, Erika L. Pearce Hit paper breakdown →	2014	611
14	Targeting Innate Receptors with MIS416 Reshapes Th Responses and Suppresses CNS Disease in a Mouse Model of Multiple Sclerosis PLoS ONE ·Madeleine P. J. White, Gill Webster, David O’Sullivan, Sarrabeth Stone, Anne Camille La Flamme	2014	28
15	Cell-intrinsic lysosomal lipolysis is essential for alternative activation of macrophages Nature Immunology ·Stanley Ching‐Cheng Huang, Bart Everts, Yulia Ivanova, David O’Sullivan, Márcia Nascimento, Amber M. Smith, Wandy L. Beatty, Latisha Love‐Gregory, Wing Y. Lam, Christina M. O’Neill, Cong Yan, Hong Du, Nada A. Abumrad, Joseph F. Urban, Maxim N. Artyomov, Erika L. Pearce, Edward J. Pearce Hit paper breakdown →	2014	897
16	Posttranscriptional Control of T Cell Effector Function by Aerobic Glycolysis Cell ·Chih‐Hao Chang, Jonathan D. Curtis, Leonard B. Maggi, Brandon Faubert, Alejandro V. Villarino, David O’Sullivan, Stanley Ching‐Cheng Huang, Gerritje J. W. van der Windt, Julianna Blagih, Jing Qiu, Jason D. Weber, Edward J. Pearce, Russell G. Jones, Erika L. Pearce Hit paper breakdown →	2013	1623
17	Microtubule‐stabilizing agents delay the onset of EAE through inhibition of migration Immunology and Cell Biology ·David O’Sullivan, John H. Miller, Peter T. Northcote, Anne Camille La Flamme	2013	11
18	Mitochondrial Genome-Knockout Cells Demonstrate a Dual Mechanism of Action for the Electron Transport Complex I Inhibitor Mycothiazole Marine Drugs ·Kirsten J. Meyer, A. Jonathan Singh, Alanna M. Cameron, An S. Tan, Venugopalan AV, David O’Sullivan, Kenan TÜFEKÇİ, Anne Camille La Flamme, Peter T. Northcote, Michael V. Berridge, John H. Miller	2012	12
19	Synergistic interactions between peloruside A and other microtubule-stabilizing and destabilizing agents in cultured human ovarian carcinoma cells and murine T cells Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology ·Anja Wilmes, David O’Sullivan, نسرین حسن, Yan Long Han, Ian Paterson, Peter T. Northcote, Anne Camille La Flamme, John H. Miller	2010	27
20	Staurosporine advances interblastomeric flattening of the mouse embryo Zygote ·David O’Sullivan, Martin H. Johnson, Josie McConnell	1993	14

About David O’Sullivan

David O’Sullivan is a scholar working on Immunology, Cancer Research, Biotechnology, Physiology and Genetics, having authored 26 papers that have together received 8.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Immune Cell Function and Interaction (10 papers), Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (5 papers), Immune cells in cancer (5 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (5 papers), Genomics, phytochemicals, and oxidative stress (2 papers), Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research (2 papers), Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (2 papers) and Cancer Treatment and Pharmacology (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Immunology (5.2k citations), Cancer Research (2.1k citations), Oncology (2.4k citations), Biological Psychiatry (177 citations) and Molecular Biology (3.3k citations). David O’Sullivan has collaborated with scholars based in New Zealand, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Erika L. Pearce, Michael D. Buck, Edward J. Pearce, Jonathan D. Curtis, Chih‐Hao Chang, Gerritje J. W. van der Windt, Jing Qiu, Stanley Ching‐Cheng Huang, Qiongyu Chen and Matthew M. Gubin. Their work appears in journals such as Cell, Immunology and Cell Biology, Cancer Cell, Nature reviews. Immunology and Allergy.

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